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US COAST GUARD (continued from page 7) into the 21st century, a mid-life maintenance overhaul of our 210 footers—replacing and standardiz- ing equipment that is simply no longer maintainable, and we are getting started on the FRAM of our 378-foot cutters that have been around since the '60s."

Speaking of the future, Admiral

Gracey, stated: "In this era of rapidly changing mission require- ments, the Coast Guard needs multi-mission cutters and boats capable of a wide variety of opera- tions. We must assess our needs carefully (including DOD input) and then get on with it—using off- the-shelf vessels and contract de- signs where appropriate. Design considerations must emphasize maintainability and reliability to cover long-term support needs.

Tradeoffs will probably be neces- sary between speed and endur- ance—above a certain point speed becomes very expensive, requiring more vessel than we need or can afford. Aircraft can provide the speed and coverage we may sacri- fice on the surface and sensor- equipped aircraft will do even more.

Helicopter landing capability on any cutter is essential. We want vessels capable of reasonable speed in all weather operations."

In conclusion the speaker said that "with long-term people costs a high consideration in federal government, we must increase our use of high-technology applica- tions and design cutters that pro- vide hospitable conditions for both people and equipment. Innovative designs such as SES and SWATH meet these conditions and we are moving in that direction."

Admiral Gracey presented the speech abstracted here at the 1983 SNAME Spring Meeting and STAR Symposium in Washington, D.C.

Dravo Awarded Navy

Contract To Rehabilitate

Crane At Portsmouth Yard

Dravo Wellman Company, a unit of Dravo Corporation of Pitts- burgh, Pa., which provides bulk materials-handling equipment, systems and engineering, has re- ceived a contract for an extensive crane rehabilitation project at the

U.S. Naval Shipyard in Ports- mouth, Va.

Awarded to Dravo Wellman by the U.S. Naval Facility Command in Norfolk, Va., the contract calls for the rehabilitation of Crane #27 at the Navy's Portsmouth ship- yard. Originally built by the Well- man Company of Cleveland in 1942, the crane is equipped with a 75-ton main hoist and a 25-ton auxiliary hoist.

Upon completion of the rehabil- itation project, the crane will be fully modernized and capable of state-of-the-art crane operations.

Work to be done on the crane in- cludes the installation of a new op- erator's cab and new electrical panels and controls; a new 300-kw engine generator; structural and mechanical rehabilitation, and re- painting. Being directed by Dravo

Wellman's service group located in

Cleveland, Ohio, the work is al- ready underway, and is expected to take approximately 10 months to complete.

Valued at more than $1.5 mil- lion, the project represents the continuation of an ongoing crane rehabilitation program begun by

Dravo Wellman at Portsmouth several years ago. Two cranes sim- ilar to Crane #27 have already been rehabilitated under the pro- gram, one in 1981, and another in 1982. Dravo Wellman is also in- volved in crane rehabilitation work at U.S. Navy shipyards in Phila- delphia and Mare Island, Calif. } •M

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